A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679733768)

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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher

A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).

Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.

Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
ISBN-10: 0679733760
ISBN-13: 9780679733768
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 06/04/1991
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/26/1991
By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
By Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH was born in Sugar City, Idaho. She holds degrees from the University of New Hampshire, University of Utah, and Simmons College. She is 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University and past president of the American Historical Association. As a MacArthur Fellow, Ulrich worked on the PBS documentary based on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Midwife's Tale. Her work is also featured on an award-winning website called dohistory.org. She is immediate past president of the Mormon History Association. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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